zed4
Prominent Member
Morning all,
I have an Apple iMac 27, good spec, i7 with 16gb RAM, standard 1TB HDD. However, it’s painfully slow! It takes an age to boot up and trying to open any apps takes forever. I don’t use it for much, only occasional internet for my business, email, Word nut mainly Aperture for photo storage and editing.
It runs a standard 1TB internal HDD, a 2TB USB 2.0 external HDD (for storing my photo library and music library) and a 3TB Thunderbolt external backup HDD.
I’m wondering if there’s a better way to store everything. I could probably cut down my photo library considerably by deleting many thousand F1 photos (usually have 3 or 4 of the same car and I’ve been too lazy to sort through it!) and there are a few apps on the machine itself I could get rid of.
Currently I believe my photo library is around 700gb and the music library is around 60gb.
I’m wondering about getting two SSD drives, one internal, the other external. Run the internal one for apps and music, and the external one for my photo library. Good idea? Presumably this would improve the speed of things considerably. What size internal drive would be sufficient? I could move my iTunes library 60gb onto the internal drive, and it would need to store the OS, MS Office and Aperture itself. Aperture’s library could be stored on the external 1TB SSD.
Many thanks,
Dan
I have an Apple iMac 27, good spec, i7 with 16gb RAM, standard 1TB HDD. However, it’s painfully slow! It takes an age to boot up and trying to open any apps takes forever. I don’t use it for much, only occasional internet for my business, email, Word nut mainly Aperture for photo storage and editing.
It runs a standard 1TB internal HDD, a 2TB USB 2.0 external HDD (for storing my photo library and music library) and a 3TB Thunderbolt external backup HDD.
I’m wondering if there’s a better way to store everything. I could probably cut down my photo library considerably by deleting many thousand F1 photos (usually have 3 or 4 of the same car and I’ve been too lazy to sort through it!) and there are a few apps on the machine itself I could get rid of.
Currently I believe my photo library is around 700gb and the music library is around 60gb.
I’m wondering about getting two SSD drives, one internal, the other external. Run the internal one for apps and music, and the external one for my photo library. Good idea? Presumably this would improve the speed of things considerably. What size internal drive would be sufficient? I could move my iTunes library 60gb onto the internal drive, and it would need to store the OS, MS Office and Aperture itself. Aperture’s library could be stored on the external 1TB SSD.
Many thanks,
Dan